Badge



(N0 ModeL) A. J, KEIL,

BADGE.

No. 595,853. 7 Patented De0.21,189'7.

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AUGUSTUS J. KEIL, OF NEi/VARK, NEW JERSEY, ASSIGNOR TO THE WHlTE- HEAD & HOAG COMPANY, OF NEW JERSEY.

BADGE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent N 0. 595,853, dated December 897.

Application filed August 2, 1897.

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, AUGUSTUS J. KEIL, a citizen of the United States, residing at Newark, in the county of Essex and State of New Jersey, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Badges; and I do hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the invention, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, and to letters of reference marked thereon, which form a part of this specification.

This invention has reference to improvements in ribbon badges adapted to be worn on the garment of a person; and the main object of the invention is to provide the ribbon with an ornamental medallion having detachably connected therewith a button-like shell, preferably bearing an inscription, design, emblem, or thelike, which can be removed and replaced byabutton or shell bearing a diiferent inscription, design, emblem, or the like. This will enable the manufacturer to produce in large quantities and have ready in stock the more expensive parts of the badge, as the ribbon, its head-piece provided with the pin for attaching the badge to the garment, and the ornamental medallion, while the button or shell adapted to be detachably secured to said medallion can be made in smaller quantities and in varieties such as are ordered from time to time by the trade.

The invention therefore consists in the novel badge to be hereinafter fully set forth and also in the several arrangements and combination of parts and minor details of construction thereof, all of which will be fully described in the accompanying specification, and finally embodied in the claim.

In the drawings, Figures 1 and 2 are a front and back view, respectively, of a badge embodying the principles of my invention, and Fig. 3 is a longitudinal vertical section of the said badge. Fig. 4 is a face view of a badge of a slightly-modified form of construction, but still embodying the novel features of this invention; and Fig. 5 is a longitudinal vertical section of the same.

Similar letters of reference are employed in Serial No. 646,755. (No model.)

all of the above-described views to indicate Q corresponding parts.

In said drawings, a indicates the ribbon portion, which may be made in the several forms illustrated more especially in Figs. 1 and 4, the'ribbon in Fig. 1 being provided with the usual form of safety-pin b for fastening the badge to the garment and the ribbon illustrated in Figs. 4 and 5 having at the top an ornamental bar I), with the usual fastening-pin on the back thereof. Secured to the lower end of said ribbon, by means of a staplefastening c, as in Figs. 1 and 2, or by means of the rings 0 and 0 as in Figs. 4; and 5, or, in fact, by any other known fastening means, is an ornamental pendant or medallion d, which is made of metal or any other suitable material and is of any desirable configuration in outline. Said medallion is provided in the center with a suitable opening, and formed contiguous to the edge of said opening are a suitable number of holding prongs or lugs d or the equivalent thereof. Said medallion is concavo-convex, as indicated in Figs. 3 and 5, and arranged against the annular edge of said opening and against the concave surface of said medallion is a suitable button or shell 6, which may be provided with any suitable inscription, design, emblem, or the like, said shell being firmly but detachably secured in position against the back of said medallion, whereby the whole receives the appearance indicated in Figs. 1 and 4' when the badge is viewed from the front. The said medallion, as will be evident, may be of any suitable shape and need not be concavo-oonvex, as herein shown.

Of course it will also be evident that I may use any suitable form of button or shell 6 in connection with the badge; but in the preferred construction said shell or button e is provided with an annular rim or bead e and has on its face a flexible covering 6 of celluloid or other suitable material, which is provided with any suitable inscription, emblem,design, or the like. The annular edge e of said covering e is arranged over and underneath the said marginal rim or bead e, where it is firmly held fast and pulled taut by a suitably-constructed reinforcing-ring e, as will be clearly seen from an inspection of Figs. 2, 3,'and 5. Said edge e is preferably curved to permitof the button or shell being readily arranged be neath the lugs d of the medallion d.

WV hen a staple c is employed for fastening the medallion d to the ribbon, said staple is usually provided with a pair of fingers or holding-prongs 0 which are passed through a hole in the medallion cl and through the ribbon and bent over thereon, as clearly illus 1 said medallion for securing said shell or buttrated in Figs. 2 and 3.

From the above description it will be seen that I have devised a highly-ornamented ribbon badge provided with a medallion to which 1 may be attached any form of shell or button which may bear any suitable inscription, emblem, design, or the like and which ,can be quickly detached and replaced by a similar shell or button bearing a diflferent inscription emblem, design, or the like, as ,willbe clearly evident.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim is A badge, comprising a ribbon, a medallion, and means for attaching the same to said ribbon, said medallion having a central opening, a shell or button adapted to be arranged against the back of said medallion, said shell or button having an annular rim or bead e and on its face a flexible covering 6 bearing an inscription, emblem, design or the like, the annular edge of said covering beingbent over said rim or bead e, a reinforcing-ring c in the back of said shell or button for securing said covering in position, and means on ton and its covering against the back of said medallion, consisting, of holding prongs or lugs 61 formed integral with said medallion and contiguous to the annular edge of said opening, and adapted to be arranged around the annular rim of said shell or button, substantially as and for the purposes set forth. 

